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BANSMISSION

Our Reference: CON 406/6

20 May 1993

Ms Deborah Barnes Jones HKD, FCO

Fax no 71 270 3387.

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I have just seen your letter of 7 May to Russ Jarvis in which you The letter refered to a letter you were proposing to send to me. to me may not of course have been sent but just in case it was,

Meanwhile, this is to let you know that we have not received it.

did John Woodrow had a word with me yesterday evening and when I did, not have our papers immediately to hand.

I mentioned to John that I had copied files notes to Russ Jarvis following my meetings with James Chiu (Chairman, British Chamber of Commerce (BCC)) and Anthony Wood (Deputy Chairman, BCC) and that I had minuted him on the specific point of the Chamber collocating with the Commercial department of the

Consulate-General.

Since clearly Russ himself did not manage to deal with this prior to going on MTL I enclose copies of the notes now for your information.

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John also raised yesterday the question of making an informal approach to Mr Chen, Director of Buildings and Lands, to see what the chances were of getting Clause 13 in the PTG dropped. decided I should take no action on this until after the next Mr. S-L's opemon in Steering Group meeting when presumably the matter will be discussed.

the chances the Director & Buildings, giving his approved to the inclusion f On the question of availability of more space for the BCC on the the BCC. Mr. S!L

did not know commercial floor, Russ did I understand have a word with OED. Between them, they rearranged the partitioning in the corner of

By converting some the floor where the BCC was to be located. storage space into office spaces there both he and OED felt confident we could meet the BCC's request for about 200 square metres of office space. But you might want to double check with OED (Russ, I fear, is incommunicado somewhere in the Pacific! ).

Yours sincerely MyRe

PfJ Smith-Laittan

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